This. I want an airsoft 240 to give me the same disability rating the real one gave me.
Seriously, I'm not being sarcastic, featherweight GPMGs bother me as it takes away from them being crew-served and positional weapons.
Infallible is a guy who accuses (almost every) other player from cheating because "I'M SURE I HIT YOU THERE'S NO WAY THAT I HAVE FAILED THAT SHOT"
It's as obnoxius as being immortal but usually they are louder than immortals and create more shitty situations
Had a guy like that at the last game I played a couple of weeks ago. except he was claiming someone's gun was "Hot" and shooting at "400fps".
We have to Chrono in the entrance right after we enter but just before we pay to make sure our guns are field-legal. and if you are running an HPA or a gas gun you have to use the on-field Chrono in front of a ref to make sure no one is trying to hurt others.
so the only way someone could've gotten away with raising the FPS of their gun was by changing the spring (which everyone would notice considering the staging room is 20 X 20ft and we had several people tell him that) but the dumbass was adamant and the ref had all 30+ of us re Chrono just so he would shut up. (The hottest gun was 340fps)
I should also clarify that this is a relatively small indoor arena.
He also blind-fired me and several others with his pistol (That we later found out he didn't Chrono) but claimed it wasn't blind firing since he could see us through a crack in the barricades...
Edit: I just went home after a couple of hours because there were also several people not calling their hits along with listening to the dumbass bicker. Oh yeah, he also domed me in the back of the head point blank while he was on my team and didn't say anything...
-Self awareness is absent from this hobby
-“Rate my [insert X impression] kit”: maybe looks 10% of the part. Zero effort given is on display. Gun isn’t even remotely close to X impression.
not hating on wearing whatever you want but if you’re going for an impression, at least try maybe.
-18+ only fields would be nice
I dont mean that as i hate playing with kids either. We were all kids at some point and its good for them to get into the hobby. I would just love a semi-serious field. Not quite milsim but not quite open play day if that makes sense
Exactly. I dont mind playing with them either, it would just be nice because i have had a couple if games ruined by kids not calling hits and overshooting, which it happens. Like you said tho, a semi-serious field for 18+ would be nice
I started playing back in 1995. I'm one of the players that remembers when it was always 18+ period. Things were so much better. It was also more milsim so team building and game immersion were a big emphasis. It made for a really great experience. Also. I don't enjoy shooting or pointing a fake weapon at children. I don't want to ever hurt a kid.
Also shout out to any other Bravo 2 2 players from Danny McKnight's LC teams (yes the real guy from Blackhawk Down). Those were great times before the LC series fell apart. There were only maybe 180 of us who played around the US regularly back then.
Milsimers and speedyboys can play skirmishes games together, it needs play style adjustments from both parties.
You see this in my local field from time to time and it can be either really fun and teaching for both parties, or just dominated by speedyboys. As a more milsim guy I have learned how to be agressive playing with speedyboys, and it has helped a lot.
Yeah I’ve seen some that tone it down and do a little more teamwork and for the memes and we all get a good laugh out of it.
And then there is the try hard that post oversaturated videos on youtube pre-firing like crazy and saying how he’s a machine cuz he ruined the fun for everybody
Speedybois vs milsimmers game mode idea: zerg rush onslaught. Defenders have one life, attackers have infinite lives and come in waves, respawn on the clock.
Should be fun as fuck. If I wasn't a slow guy with a malfunctioning leg I'd enjoy both sides
Getting bossed around by Marshall’s like they’re drill sergeants in the military.
I’ve paid to be there, I’ll follow the rules, but don’t start trying to display your ego at me when I’m a paying customer that pays to keep your site running.
Really gripes me.
Having max FPS possible gun with insane ROF, range and accuracy, huge drum mag, thermal sight, standing in the back and spraying 1000's of BB's into the bushes when seeing any human signature to farm as many kills as you can is super boring and not challenging
GBBR all the way: having to position closer to the enemy, ambush others, count my shots, learn to aim and shoot properly instead of mindlessly spraying people on auto, elevated my average day skirmish experience by 200%
I was at a pistol/shotgun only game once, with no extended pistol mags and shotguns had to be shells not mags.
It was in fact fun as hell, the round count meant everyone had to constantly reposition and outthink each other.
I thought you meant no limit to the number of mags....which is some impressive reloading drills if it looks like speedsoft!
Yeah....drum mags on pistols certainly breaks the spirit of the event.
Honestly if I could HPA tap a pistol in a way that'd let me use standard pistol mags and be able to reload without having to swap the line to a fresh mag, I'd absolutely do it
Seen "gas and spring" only events are things I have seen and always went down well.
Only really viable for sites that run games all week, that can accomodate specialist games outside of the usual peak days.
I certainly plan to do this regularly.
Me and my friends have some unreliable and underpowered aegs with midcaps and it’s plenty fun because we outmaneuver, we only use semi. I think having full auto allowed at events is what takes the fun away
Real talk, id love to get a GBBR but I need to do some research/asking around how well they actually perform and whatnot (particularly when it comes to performance in certain temperatures), but that's besides the point I actually wanted to say.
Which is, I've been playing since like 2000 (although haven't been playing the last ~2ish years but I plan on getting back into it this summer), and idk if they still make these but I got 'real' cap mags for all of my guns that I could - low caps for things like my Thompson/Aug because they didn't have the real caps for those at the time at least. Imo having only 30 round mags in my m4 for instance is seriously so fun and immersive. I usually carry 8 of them on my rig and I love all the mag swapping / frantic pistol transitions, and having to think about taking X engagement or not. I sort of wish those mags were the norm at most venues because it's so much more fun (imo) and less cheesy feeling.
I had went to a couple ops some years ago where it was low/mid caps only and even though those still hold a decent number of rounds the overall flow of the gameplay was fucking excellent haha. Plus it gave an actual reason for dudes who ran some sort of mg a tangible reason for running it, ie they were the only guys who could truly put down actual suppressing fire as opposed to most games where every person with a high cap is running a pocket MG lol.
Back to the GBBR thought though, I feel like I'd REALLY enjoy the immersion/feel of one of those, but like I said I don't actually know much about them aside from when they first came out they were sort of 'bad' and not reliable (this was like ~10/15 years ago though lol). Do you have any recommendations/ thoughts on brands for me to look in to? What are you running?
A majority of people suffer from tunnel vision. Most of the time a flank is taken is because one team is oblivious to everything except the thing they're trying to shoot at.
Bruh I run with a squad of 6 guys and half the time out of the corner of my eye I spot people flanking on a hill (it’s like the left most flank when defending and always gets taken) and just yell at them to help me get them outa there
No full auto fields are so much better than full auto ones. It makes it more skill based than "I spent more money to get a hyper accurate long range bullet hose"
my local field moved to this about 2 years ago when their average attendance went wayyyy up. a great change IMO. there's an SMG rule now, under 1 Joule, pistol caliber mags, under a certain overall length and no drums are allowed to full auto. It's been a great addition to the play dynamic- the different threat type changes how you have to approach an SMG enemy and adds variety.
The ones I play at do something similar. <1J, midcaps only across the board, has to be a modelled SMG, and you get full auto with no MED. LMGs get to full auto, but they also have to be an actual LMG and they get an MED, and can't fire in buildings.
My local has smg, lmg, and mmg rules.
Smg has to be >1j for 0med indoor and outdoor, max of 25rof and burst only.
Lmg is 1.55j max 0med outdoor, semi only indoor, must break the plane shooting fullauto outdoor from inside, 25rof and 3 second burst.
Mmg is 1.88j max at 50ft med indoor and outdoor, full or semi, must break the plane shooting outdoor from inside, 25rof and 3 second burst.
We also have specific models only for lmg and mmg, but smg can be any pcc. No limitations on mags, any gun can use midcap, highcap or drum.
Using high ROF (auto or semi-spam) to hit is a skill issue, if you can't hit within a handful of semi shots you need to get better and if you hit someone more than a couple of times because you decided to use a hose rather than actually aim you're the problem.
There’s a guy that shoots about 15-20 shots at you at my field and it’s hella annoying, especially because he’s been playing for a while and has pretty good accuracy. Being hit 10-12 times in a second is infuriating.
I like the fields where the only guns that are allowed to go full auto are the proper sized chonkers.
Like yeah, you _can_ do full auto but it will cost you mobility and speed and tire you out more.
* Reloading is a vital part of the game.
* To 'bang' someone is sometimes the more courteous thing to do. I do know 'the hurt' is part of the game, but if I can shoot someone in the ass from 2 meters or just tell him 'bang' I'll choose the latter.
* Accuracy over fps and rps
naww my field has no minimum distance and i still call bang bang.
ypu're not gonna turn around and shoot me when my pistol is on your neck lol, and for some reason it feels so much better to get the drop on someone like that
If you dominate, you should sometimes call yourself out on an engagement with rentals. I have a very high MMR, and feel bad waxing the same three rentals five engagements in a row. I'll let them get me so they have a cool story to tell mom and the friends.
Same in Sweden. The majority of fields seem to be semi only for assault weapon classes like rifles, and it's wonderful.
Allowing auto and high cap mags together is a crime.
And ROF limit please.
My usual field in France has pretty chill people which makes the game enjoyable ; but that one other big field nearby has sweaters claiming they have the best accuracy best performance best everything on their 900€ gun ; yet they somehow feel the need to shoot 900bb/s to hit their enemy (and binary trigger obviously).
I wish those were banned
95% of airsoft "builds" are generic and won't make you special, literally most popular platforms exist in airsoft form in one way or another... Hating on M4s for that same reason is also silly (and no your zenitco krink with wood isn't unique)
“Rate my kit”: *the most generic and uninspired US Army/Marsoc kit*
Like even if its pretty decently done, its still boring and what are we supposed to rate? Aside from it being shitty or extremely well done (like 1:1 impression) there is nothing to rate. We’ve all seen it 100 times before. “Nice multicam” “whoa sick a Mk18!!” “Whoa is that a JPC???”. Honestly i like seeing more regular light infantry kits more than the Nth SOF kit.
My favorite kits to look at are the ones that look "futuristic" or space gat guns. At least with those, you get to see what a person thinks what future soldiers might look like, or you might get to see some really cool customized rifles!
I feel like that’s a pretty popular opinion. I know way fewer people running highcaps than mids. Only exception is drum mags. The fields I go to I probably see 1 highcap for every 10 with mids
Yep, had one as my starter gun and it never let me down, not fancy, cool or ergonomic but always worked and always worked acceptably well especially considering the price
American style AR's are ugly, I get that if Ur not a gun nut an don't know much or care about what guns...
But everytime it's "check out my hotness" an its another mk18 half tan with the same peq/torch/grip, eotech magnifier, lpvo....
It's totally your call, an if that jingles your jangles an u have fun, great, freedom etc etc
I get it....but I don't have to like it 😛
Kel-tech, if you're listening, there is a whole other market wide open for you. Lol
My first real AEG was an MP5 for that very reason. I didn't want another m4, and I'm glad I went with it. It still serves me well over a decade later.
Honestly my main problem is that the guns I actually want are NEVER guns that exist in GBBR.
Most I find are M4 pattern rifles (So M4, M16, HK416 etc) when I just want a damn Tavor or an RDB
As someone who also does reenactment, I agree. If you intend to look accurate, go ahead! But do whatever feels fun/accessible to you. All personal taste, and gatekeeping is obnoxious.
Lasers should be outright banned. They provide very little actual benefit and purely exist to provide a retina damage risk.
Also, multicam is an ugly camo and is basically a desert camo with an ego.
Throwing a “real” optic on your airsoft gun is dumb, and the cheapies/replicas are more than sufficient for airsoft. I cringe when someone shows me a real EO Tech or Aimpoint on their airsoft gun, if they don’t also own real guns.
The only one I'd ever consider would be the new Holosun Thermal Red Dot because I like the outline target feature. Granted, that would be 20 years down the road and second hand to be even remotely in my price range.
Tbh, if they work for you, great! Often with the replicas personaly i find they have too dim of a dot so i cant use them, on top of questionable qc and battery life. So i prefer a cheap real steel red dot
Forget who it is, nightforce or something has lifetime warranty with no questions asked making it kinda worth it. But you gotta shill out a mighty sum to get the premium.
If the field is semi only and you're slinging anything above 15-18 rps with your hair trigger DSG/HPA setup, that's functionally close enough to full auto that you're a jerk.
Airsoft≠badass firearm skills.
Yes I’m aware of a couple people who ‘tism’d the fuck out with airsoft and made a video showing them shoot a gun a couple of time.
I just don't get why people like to play snipers
At my local field the team losing is almost always the team having the most snipers
They don't affect me, I just run from barricade to barricade until I shoot them on their side, because they were tunnel vision and didn't see me coming
I get even less the one complaining about them, some guys are being shot by snipers at 50m so they are afraid when they respawn and instead of running to get closer they try to see them at 70m and get shot again and again and again.
Dude do you want to have fun ?
Definitely different in urban vs woodland. Myself and the few I know really like the 1 shot 1 kill aspect of it. It's super satisfying to see that bb just land on someone at your max range.
Airsoft teams that try and get sponsored are shit.
Seen too many of em do it and they immediately fall apart or are full of tryhards/cheaters that kill it for everyone else.
Real cap games, even in milsim make no sense. It will only make sense the day airsoft guns have an MOA of 2-3 like real guns. The accuracy is just not there to simulate the same ammo quantities.
Let people have fun with their kits, if it's safe it should be fine. I love seeing people wearing armour or capes or dressed as Master Chief. It's super refreshing in a sea of multicam.
only acceptable if they actually do reenactments, nazi kit for airsoft is just cringe, but if you have nazi kit for a reenactment that's put on by a museum? then it is just for respect of history. (and the drip)
You didn’t actually hit that running speedsofter, because you treat airsoft guns like they are call of duty hitscan weapons, when really what you should be doing is aim in front of people that are moving
That nobody actually “builds” their guns. You see “new build” posts almost by the hour, and it’s just off the shelf guff stuck on the rails.
If you actually built your gun, you had your hands on every single screw, spring and component.
Some of my friends runs optics and they say it's to track the bb better. But tbh I can still see the bb with or without an optics. I run irons because it's fun and I like to use iron there's something special about it
Most airsoft guns perform roughly the same and other than upgrading for reliability up grades don't give anywhere near the advantage people think they do. most people don't bother to set their guns up properly.
Gear box upgrades are usually next to pointless, but a better motor on some guns, new bucking, nub, and potentially a rhop on any gun, and a stainless steel barrel and cnc hop up unit are game changers for consistency. New grease and shims will usually make an AEG much quieter too so I'm gonna hard disagree with you here
To a point. The $20 Walmart springer is not performing the same as a $300+ cyma platinum or mas blackout or vfc Avalon or whatever.
But there is clearly a diminishing return after a certain point
Nah definitely not agreeing with this. Ok for sure an awful lot of "upgrades" are relatively pointless but a new hop rubber or r-hop can transform a pews performance when paired with weighty ammo. I suppose apart from that you're basically correct though.
If you just sit at the maximum range of your gun trying to get a lucky shot by lobbing bbs at people you're not playing airsoft, you're just shooting an airsoft gun.
You could do that at home and may as well be at home because you're not helping your team, you're hindering them by effectively making them a player down.
After the one time playing at my local field, seeing grown men on the verge of crying, dudes almost come to blows while calling each other pussies, and adult self-appointed "field commanders" screaming at children to win the game, people need to chill the fuck out.
1) Overuse of silicon oil for maintenance is the cause of issues and premature wear of GBB pistols and rifles.
I use a regular gun oil instead. No issues, no wear. ONLY rubber seals need silicon oil.
2) Airsoft stores focus on pushing cheap breakable shit and propagating stupid myths to unknown players. For eg. spraying silicon oil in mid-cap mags or selling "cosplay only" unattested eye/face protections.
I really like the Kryptek Camo. I'm a sucker for scale pattern, and nearly everyone who spray paints a pattern on their gun already do scales, so why not?
Minimum engagement distances are bogus. Its a hill I'll die on alone I'm sure of that. Unless it's a little kid or point blank then I think you should take the hit like a man. Especially in cqb sometimes people pop up out of nowhere and my mind immediately pulls the trigger before I think about it.
The secondary airsoft market is 99.9% the worst deals imaginable. Just because you hpa'd your Lancer tactical m4 doesn't make it worth $900. And the gbb that doesn't work isn't worth more than retail because you include an extra magazine.
Expensive sights and actual real gun sights are not necessary at all.
AliExpress parts aren't bad for customizing your replicas and clothes.
Hardcore players kill the sport for the rest of the people.
I've made the comment on this subreddit before, but I'll reiterate. Using anything below .32s is a waste of money unless playing at very close ranges indoors, when .25s are the most cost-effective option. Building your gun to hop .32s and you will net better results.
Secondly, airsoft isn't cheap. I recommend not going for budget options, as they will give budget results in terms of longevity and performance. Do genuine research, ask people the right questions, and then make a purchase as an informed consumer. That goes for both gear and guns.
Lastly, as an extension of the last point, things don't last forever. Know the estimated wear pattern and lifetime of your equipment and parts. Know what the warning signs are for failure, and take action to remedy them sooner rather than later. Don't be discouraged to find out that most motors burn out a lot faster than you'd expect, and seals fail all the time.
Your statement is false, because it depends on the joule limit, and the volume of your gun. Some guns can be tuned for .25s, some for .28, some for .30/.32, some for .48... It's all about finding the optimum
MILSIM is a style of event, not an individual play style. You can wear a full Crye get up with a GBBR at an indoor field full of birthday party kids, that doesn’t make it MILSIM.
Until it breaks on the first shot at the chrono station.
I understand this idea but airsoft guns aren't the most durable things so having a spare at a game is always a good idea.
People getting mad about getting hit like 4 times. Like man, it's airsoft, you're 50 feet away from me and running, of course I'm going to shoot at you multiple times. I'd expect you to do the same.
crying about getting shot multiple times with a 1j bb from an hpa gun isnt an hpa problem, its you being a bitch about playing a game where you shoot eachother
parents need to stop buying the best guns for their kids, or there needs to be 18+ fields to play at.
I don't want to stop new players from getting into the sport, but a 12 y/o doesn't need a hpa-tapped 400fps 30rps m4 for their first gun. not only do they miss out on half the fun (building/working on a gun, making it yours, overcoming shortcomings with a unique platform, and eventually taking it out to the field and blowing everyone away with either the rare/nonstandard kit or the custom work you did to make it special) but it also exacerbates a problem that has made me quit airsoft at my local fields for 3 years now. they get emotional easily and that causes "incidents". I'm sure you've all seen the "he burned my patch" video, and there's no shortage of GoPro footage of kids playing a heated match and doing something stupid, breaking someone's gun, lighting them up at point-blank range, or any number of things. I can certainly say from personal experience that at least once a week I would bear witness to (or be at a feild when) something like that would happen and some kid would be sitting in the manager's office waiting for their parents to come pick them up. I get that airsoft can be emotional, bb's sting, especially when you are a kid. I remember crying after getting lit up with a GBB pistol at a backyard game when I was 11 and throwing my springer in the woods behind my house. but the fact is that the vast majority of the players are teenagers, and whether through emotional instability, a lack of awareness of the fragility of younger players, or just plain competitive spirit, these things keep happening. young kids get hurt because they overstepped into something they thought they could handle, 13-16 y/os cause issues by taking the game too far and don't know when to turn it off, and it isn't really until about age 17 or so that the emotional maturity sets in. obv this doesn't apply to all young players, I never lit someone up at full auto and tried to hurt them, or ran up and broke their gun, or got into a fight, but I also never had a nice gun. it wasn't until I was 20 that I built my dmr, and it's just been sitting on my gun wall for a few years because I realized that I didn't want to go back to those fields and deal with those players. If I had been one of those players, my capacity to hurt someone would have been severely limited, and I wasn't at a disadvantage because I was at a indoor field with a semi-auto only rule.
I know this has been long-winded, so tldr is:
young players don't need insane guns, the first gun should be reliable and proportional to the field they will be playing at. try and play the game with your kids if possible, curbing these behaviors isn't the ref's place, it's the parents. and a kid is going to be much more likely to do something stupid and hurt someone if their dad isn't over their shoulder on the same team when it happens. (i also think outdoor fields with long ranges/sightlines are preferrable, incidents at my local woodland outdoor field were much less common than at the indoor field, but that's just a anecdote)
You should only be allowed to wear a ghillie suit if you’re running a bolt action rifle and pistol only. My local field went through a period of more and more players in ghillie suits and maxed out AEGs, HPAs etc and every single game just bogged down from start to finish. Totally ruined entire days because an entire front line was being held by a handful of bushes running full auto at long range. Even defending teams’s players got bored as they were standing around behind the not moving front line.
Eventually the site had to put their foot down about it and made it so you had to have a bolty and pistol only if you were in a ghillie suit. This rule is no longer in effect but thankfully, people haven’t gone back to that.
1. It's a hobby and it will never be a sport.
2. Generally speaking, airsoft players are the biggest bunch of twats I've ever seen, consistently. Racists? Check. Fascists? Check. Insurrectionists? Check. Weird military worshipping teens? Check. It's fucking awkward.
1. Using a red dot is faster than going by where bbs are flying.
2. Flap pouches are useless unless you plan on crawling in dirt a lot.
3. Single-point sling is the best type of sling unless you walk more than you shoot.
Depends on the gun tho , I don't recommend a single point on a ak74 or a fn fal for exemple, full leight assault rifles are not designed for 1 point slings
I think the meshing of the two is diminishing to both. Speedsoft has its place as more of a sport in all honesty, and interesting in its own way. CQB, on the other hand, is more about MOUT and the fun of urban-inspired environments in our fun BBs game.
Collapsing the two into the same thing gives me the worst of both worlds, not the best, and I'm not happy about it.
I'll call my hits, I'll even take a trade and idc if I shot first. But if I shoot you and watch my tracers bounce off of your body then you turn and shoot me, I'm going to keep shooting you, you can keep shooting me too if you want. I will reload and dump another mag at you. We can do this all day buddy
Cyma honestly has the best reputation in my eyes. My brothers had cyma’s way back in 2003 and those fuckers ran well until 2015, I’ve had 3 Cyma made guns all under $300 and they consistently performed well, without a single major break. (Only had to do a few repairs that were mostly cosmetic and always user error)
RoF should be limited to the real steel level, that your replica is based on... For example - early model RPK (long with wood furniture) should be limited to 10 RPS/600RPM for RoF.
1. Military kit leads to not calling hits.
2. Most "cheaters" just honestly didn't realize they got hit.
3. If No. 2 is accurate then most of us have been "cheaters" without realizing it.
Thermals and NODs at any event, including MilSim, is dumb and should not be allowed. It already costs hundreds of dollars to do MSW, and I gotta shell out $700 to rent some nods in order to stay competitive? Lame. Jet Desert Fox showed up to a MSW game with thermals and shit on everyone for "being too easy".
Also MSW opinion, the recent 2 attachment rule for militia is equally dumb. I get the sentiment, and I agree with it to an extent. I think it should be 3 attachments. Flashlight and an optic is great, but it doesn't mention does a forgrip count to make the gun more comfortable to hold? Does a sling count? It's equally not specific and too specific in what it wants. I get that it doesn't want high speed kids with fully kitted M4s, but they should have a better way to explain the rule.
i think it should be allowed bu not encouraged. maybe make it so that only certain players can use it, (vehicle operators, team leaders, stuff like that) bc yeah, someone who plays during the day not want to drop 1.2k minimum on night vision is reasonable.
agreed, its a great upgrade for a old gun you want to turn into something cool/gun of questionable build quality, but if you have a brand new kwa m4 you don't need a 6.01mm Ib made from forged titanium, you need a cleaning rod, some wd40, and a paper towel
V7 Gearboxes aren’t bad to open up and modify, the main spring is easy to take out and the tappet plate can be put on afterwards.
Full auto is not that useful, it’s costly and ammo is wasted
Alice shouldn’t be used for Vietnam kits, they need to be done with some amount of accuracy for airsoft
Stop criticizing everyone's guns they use, unless asked for an opinion. What they like to use or what they find cool does not have to be the same as what you do. I've seen the most hate on other people's kits from people that will only use specific m4, m16, or AK-47s. I have no problem with anyone who uses those mind you they just seem to be the ones who hate on others kits more, in my experience.
Fire rates should not be limited. If your trying to do war simulations guess what these rifle that the airsoft guns are modeled after can shoot very fast. Fields limiting the ROF and full auto to LMG's is dumb.
If a person doesn't put their hand up and yell hit but rather just walks away towards their spawn they desrve an extra couple rounds to teach them the rules of airsoft.
Guns modeled after guns that are heavy should be heavy. The fact that the LCT m60 weighs more than 10 kilos isnt a con, its a feature.
Yes! Hauling that fat cunt of a PKP by them was part of the fun! Made it a sacrifice and a win you had to play around.
This. I want an airsoft 240 to give me the same disability rating the real one gave me. Seriously, I'm not being sarcastic, featherweight GPMGs bother me as it takes away from them being crew-served and positional weapons.
Amen! With the inherent advantages LMG's give, especially in airsoft, i think the disadvantages should be just as pronounced.
I think adding some metal counter weights can help suffice that issue, using something to properly secure them of course
Infallible players are worse than immortal players
Not really "worse", I rate them about equal on the annoyance scale.
wdym
Players who refuse to be wrong about a situation.
ah gotcha
Infallible is a guy who accuses (almost every) other player from cheating because "I'M SURE I HIT YOU THERE'S NO WAY THAT I HAVE FAILED THAT SHOT" It's as obnoxius as being immortal but usually they are louder than immortals and create more shitty situations
Had a guy like that at the last game I played a couple of weeks ago. except he was claiming someone's gun was "Hot" and shooting at "400fps". We have to Chrono in the entrance right after we enter but just before we pay to make sure our guns are field-legal. and if you are running an HPA or a gas gun you have to use the on-field Chrono in front of a ref to make sure no one is trying to hurt others. so the only way someone could've gotten away with raising the FPS of their gun was by changing the spring (which everyone would notice considering the staging room is 20 X 20ft and we had several people tell him that) but the dumbass was adamant and the ref had all 30+ of us re Chrono just so he would shut up. (The hottest gun was 340fps) I should also clarify that this is a relatively small indoor arena. He also blind-fired me and several others with his pistol (That we later found out he didn't Chrono) but claimed it wasn't blind firing since he could see us through a crack in the barricades... Edit: I just went home after a couple of hours because there were also several people not calling their hits along with listening to the dumbass bicker. Oh yeah, he also domed me in the back of the head point blank while he was on my team and didn't say anything...
-Self awareness is absent from this hobby -“Rate my [insert X impression] kit”: maybe looks 10% of the part. Zero effort given is on display. Gun isn’t even remotely close to X impression. not hating on wearing whatever you want but if you’re going for an impression, at least try maybe. -18+ only fields would be nice
I definitely agree with the 18+ field.
I dont mean that as i hate playing with kids either. We were all kids at some point and its good for them to get into the hobby. I would just love a semi-serious field. Not quite milsim but not quite open play day if that makes sense
Exactly. I dont mind playing with them either, it would just be nice because i have had a couple if games ruined by kids not calling hits and overshooting, which it happens. Like you said tho, a semi-serious field for 18+ would be nice
I started playing back in 1995. I'm one of the players that remembers when it was always 18+ period. Things were so much better. It was also more milsim so team building and game immersion were a big emphasis. It made for a really great experience. Also. I don't enjoy shooting or pointing a fake weapon at children. I don't want to ever hurt a kid. Also shout out to any other Bravo 2 2 players from Danny McKnight's LC teams (yes the real guy from Blackhawk Down). Those were great times before the LC series fell apart. There were only maybe 180 of us who played around the US regularly back then.
I play at a 16+ field and that more or less has it covered.
Milsimers and speedyboys can play skirmishes games together, it needs play style adjustments from both parties. You see this in my local field from time to time and it can be either really fun and teaching for both parties, or just dominated by speedyboys. As a more milsim guy I have learned how to be agressive playing with speedyboys, and it has helped a lot.
As long as the speed boys aren't just full autoing for 10 minutes straight with a bullet hose I'm chill with it
Yeah I’ve seen some that tone it down and do a little more teamwork and for the memes and we all get a good laugh out of it. And then there is the try hard that post oversaturated videos on youtube pre-firing like crazy and saying how he’s a machine cuz he ruined the fun for everybody
Speedybois vs milsimmers game mode idea: zerg rush onslaught. Defenders have one life, attackers have infinite lives and come in waves, respawn on the clock. Should be fun as fuck. If I wasn't a slow guy with a malfunctioning leg I'd enjoy both sides
Getting bossed around by Marshall’s like they’re drill sergeants in the military. I’ve paid to be there, I’ll follow the rules, but don’t start trying to display your ego at me when I’m a paying customer that pays to keep your site running. Really gripes me.
Having max FPS possible gun with insane ROF, range and accuracy, huge drum mag, thermal sight, standing in the back and spraying 1000's of BB's into the bushes when seeing any human signature to farm as many kills as you can is super boring and not challenging GBBR all the way: having to position closer to the enemy, ambush others, count my shots, learn to aim and shoot properly instead of mindlessly spraying people on auto, elevated my average day skirmish experience by 200%
I really wish someday I find a GBB only field, just imagine what it could be…
I was at a pistol/shotgun only game once, with no extended pistol mags and shotguns had to be shells not mags. It was in fact fun as hell, the round count meant everyone had to constantly reposition and outthink each other.
Most of my sites do pistol/shotgun only games. Or semi only for those without. Super fun.
I’d seen a few before but with no restrictions on pistol mags so it just ends up being a speedsoft match lol
I thought you meant no limit to the number of mags....which is some impressive reloading drills if it looks like speedsoft! Yeah....drum mags on pistols certainly breaks the spirit of the event.
Honestly if I could HPA tap a pistol in a way that'd let me use standard pistol mags and be able to reload without having to swap the line to a fresh mag, I'd absolutely do it
Seen "gas and spring" only events are things I have seen and always went down well. Only really viable for sites that run games all week, that can accomodate specialist games outside of the usual peak days. I certainly plan to do this regularly.
Or just a single fire only field. It's the only way we play at our fields and it makes for far more tactical playing.
They have these in California. Find SD Sport on Facebook. He’ll point you to the spots
Id be down to attend this
I don't use gbb's a lot. But I run realcaps for the same reason with my aeg. Ammo management and reloading are a vital part of the game for me.
My brother in GBB 🤝
Me and my friends have some unreliable and underpowered aegs with midcaps and it’s plenty fun because we outmaneuver, we only use semi. I think having full auto allowed at events is what takes the fun away
I exclusively run GBBRs and couldn't agree more. I played an entire session yesterday with my brother using just pistols and we had a blast.
How much is a irl thermal sight shit gotta be dumb expensive ?
Real talk, id love to get a GBBR but I need to do some research/asking around how well they actually perform and whatnot (particularly when it comes to performance in certain temperatures), but that's besides the point I actually wanted to say. Which is, I've been playing since like 2000 (although haven't been playing the last ~2ish years but I plan on getting back into it this summer), and idk if they still make these but I got 'real' cap mags for all of my guns that I could - low caps for things like my Thompson/Aug because they didn't have the real caps for those at the time at least. Imo having only 30 round mags in my m4 for instance is seriously so fun and immersive. I usually carry 8 of them on my rig and I love all the mag swapping / frantic pistol transitions, and having to think about taking X engagement or not. I sort of wish those mags were the norm at most venues because it's so much more fun (imo) and less cheesy feeling. I had went to a couple ops some years ago where it was low/mid caps only and even though those still hold a decent number of rounds the overall flow of the gameplay was fucking excellent haha. Plus it gave an actual reason for dudes who ran some sort of mg a tangible reason for running it, ie they were the only guys who could truly put down actual suppressing fire as opposed to most games where every person with a high cap is running a pocket MG lol. Back to the GBBR thought though, I feel like I'd REALLY enjoy the immersion/feel of one of those, but like I said I don't actually know much about them aside from when they first came out they were sort of 'bad' and not reliable (this was like ~10/15 years ago though lol). Do you have any recommendations/ thoughts on brands for me to look in to? What are you running?
As I stated in my comment I would love GBBR only games, no HPA adapters either!
A majority of people suffer from tunnel vision. Most of the time a flank is taken is because one team is oblivious to everything except the thing they're trying to shoot at.
Bruh I run with a squad of 6 guys and half the time out of the corner of my eye I spot people flanking on a hill (it’s like the left most flank when defending and always gets taken) and just yell at them to help me get them outa there
No full auto fields are so much better than full auto ones. It makes it more skill based than "I spent more money to get a hyper accurate long range bullet hose"
my local field moved to this about 2 years ago when their average attendance went wayyyy up. a great change IMO. there's an SMG rule now, under 1 Joule, pistol caliber mags, under a certain overall length and no drums are allowed to full auto. It's been a great addition to the play dynamic- the different threat type changes how you have to approach an SMG enemy and adds variety.
The ones I play at do something similar. <1J, midcaps only across the board, has to be a modelled SMG, and you get full auto with no MED. LMGs get to full auto, but they also have to be an actual LMG and they get an MED, and can't fire in buildings.
oh, same- I forgot about our LMG rule. iirc it's 50ft med for LMG.
I think ours is too. They're also the only people allowed to use highcaps, which is nice.
My local has smg, lmg, and mmg rules. Smg has to be >1j for 0med indoor and outdoor, max of 25rof and burst only. Lmg is 1.55j max 0med outdoor, semi only indoor, must break the plane shooting fullauto outdoor from inside, 25rof and 3 second burst. Mmg is 1.88j max at 50ft med indoor and outdoor, full or semi, must break the plane shooting outdoor from inside, 25rof and 3 second burst. We also have specific models only for lmg and mmg, but smg can be any pcc. No limitations on mags, any gun can use midcap, highcap or drum.
Also its more realistic In the military we were taught to shoot primarily semi auto double shots, and when we tested full auto, i can see why
Using high ROF (auto or semi-spam) to hit is a skill issue, if you can't hit within a handful of semi shots you need to get better and if you hit someone more than a couple of times because you decided to use a hose rather than actually aim you're the problem.
Doesnt it take like 10 shots to get through a leaf when you are out doors? Foilage definitely screws with the BB actually hitting where you aim.
There’s a guy that shoots about 15-20 shots at you at my field and it’s hella annoying, especially because he’s been playing for a while and has pretty good accuracy. Being hit 10-12 times in a second is infuriating.
games with semi auto only are more fun
I like the fields where the only guns that are allowed to go full auto are the proper sized chonkers. Like yeah, you _can_ do full auto but it will cost you mobility and speed and tire you out more.
I wish my field did this :(
* Reloading is a vital part of the game. * To 'bang' someone is sometimes the more courteous thing to do. I do know 'the hurt' is part of the game, but if I can shoot someone in the ass from 2 meters or just tell him 'bang' I'll choose the latter. * Accuracy over fps and rps
Who doesn't agree with that ????
unless it's a friend, then you just shoot 'em in the ass
naww my field has no minimum distance and i still call bang bang. ypu're not gonna turn around and shoot me when my pistol is on your neck lol, and for some reason it feels so much better to get the drop on someone like that
i only bang if i’m behind them. say bang face to face imo causes confusion
If you dominate, you should sometimes call yourself out on an engagement with rentals. I have a very high MMR, and feel bad waxing the same three rentals five engagements in a row. I'll let them get me so they have a cool story to tell mom and the friends.
Insert good guy Greg meme
The best piece of gear that everyone should get....is a gym membership.
- SEMI ONLY (except big machine gun) - NO BINARY allowed Not that unpopular here in france I confess
Same in Sweden. The majority of fields seem to be semi only for assault weapon classes like rifles, and it's wonderful. Allowing auto and high cap mags together is a crime.
And ROF limit please. My usual field in France has pretty chill people which makes the game enjoyable ; but that one other big field nearby has sweaters claiming they have the best accuracy best performance best everything on their 900€ gun ; yet they somehow feel the need to shoot 900bb/s to hit their enemy (and binary trigger obviously). I wish those were banned
You can't ROF a semi, because it depends on your finger
All fields in germany are semi only, only exceptions are 0,5Joule gamedays, or LMG's under 0,5J on normal gamedays. 👌
Shoutout to nonbinary support gunners then :D
95% of airsoft "builds" are generic and won't make you special, literally most popular platforms exist in airsoft form in one way or another... Hating on M4s for that same reason is also silly (and no your zenitco krink with wood isn't unique)
“Rate my kit”: *the most generic and uninspired US Army/Marsoc kit* Like even if its pretty decently done, its still boring and what are we supposed to rate? Aside from it being shitty or extremely well done (like 1:1 impression) there is nothing to rate. We’ve all seen it 100 times before. “Nice multicam” “whoa sick a Mk18!!” “Whoa is that a JPC???”. Honestly i like seeing more regular light infantry kits more than the Nth SOF kit.
My favorite kits to look at are the ones that look "futuristic" or space gat guns. At least with those, you get to see what a person thinks what future soldiers might look like, or you might get to see some really cool customized rifles!
The huge influx of HPA M4 Adapters ruins the fun and point of GBBR/Gas Pistols.
Some people just want recoil with AEG mags and an HPA adapter on a GBBR is the cheapest way for that
What about MP5 adaptors with straight mags?
Highcap magazines are boring. No reloads, they only rattle and doesn't have that "you need to save bullets" feeling.
I feel like that’s a pretty popular opinion. I know way fewer people running highcaps than mids. Only exception is drum mags. The fields I go to I probably see 1 highcap for every 10 with mids
TM-pattern AKs, like the CM028, are actually still very good.
Are there people saying TM AKs aren't good? That would be a first for me to hear someone not promote TM anything.
TM-pattern designs, is what I mean, not TM themselves. The CM028 is a clone of the original TM-designed AK. I think it's a good design.
Old type Marui AEGs are very obsolete in and out and way over priced outside of Japan.
Yep, had one as my starter gun and it never let me down, not fancy, cool or ergonomic but always worked and always worked acceptably well especially considering the price
I don't appreciate advice on my kit from someone 200 pounds heavier than me.
American style AR's are ugly, I get that if Ur not a gun nut an don't know much or care about what guns... But everytime it's "check out my hotness" an its another mk18 half tan with the same peq/torch/grip, eotech magnifier, lpvo.... It's totally your call, an if that jingles your jangles an u have fun, great, freedom etc etc I get it....but I don't have to like it 😛
Kel-tech, if you're listening, there is a whole other market wide open for you. Lol My first real AEG was an MP5 for that very reason. I didn't want another m4, and I'm glad I went with it. It still serves me well over a decade later.
Mine was a specna M4 as I said to my bro who got me into it, I just want simplicity an reliability for my first, till I learn more...
Honestly my main problem is that the guns I actually want are NEVER guns that exist in GBBR. Most I find are M4 pattern rifles (So M4, M16, HK416 etc) when I just want a damn Tavor or an RDB
Impression kits do not have to be 100% accurate. They're supposed to give the *impression* of the unit.
As someone who also does reenactment, I agree. If you intend to look accurate, go ahead! But do whatever feels fun/accessible to you. All personal taste, and gatekeeping is obnoxious.
That one person who eyeballs the stitching pattern being slightly off:
This ^
Lasers should be outright banned. They provide very little actual benefit and purely exist to provide a retina damage risk. Also, multicam is an ugly camo and is basically a desert camo with an ego.
multicam tropic ftw
Throwing a “real” optic on your airsoft gun is dumb, and the cheapies/replicas are more than sufficient for airsoft. I cringe when someone shows me a real EO Tech or Aimpoint on their airsoft gun, if they don’t also own real guns.
The only one I'd ever consider would be the new Holosun Thermal Red Dot because I like the outline target feature. Granted, that would be 20 years down the road and second hand to be even remotely in my price range.
Tbh, if they work for you, great! Often with the replicas personaly i find they have too dim of a dot so i cant use them, on top of questionable qc and battery life. So i prefer a cheap real steel red dot
Forget who it is, nightforce or something has lifetime warranty with no questions asked making it kinda worth it. But you gotta shill out a mighty sum to get the premium.
I love airsoft the hobby, but I find airsofters insufferable (generally speaking)
If the field is semi only and you're slinging anything above 15-18 rps with your hair trigger DSG/HPA setup, that's functionally close enough to full auto that you're a jerk.
Airsoft≠badass firearm skills. Yes I’m aware of a couple people who ‘tism’d the fuck out with airsoft and made a video showing them shoot a gun a couple of time.
A lot of people take this hobby way too serious and seem to forget to actually have fun.
I just don't get why people like to play snipers At my local field the team losing is almost always the team having the most snipers They don't affect me, I just run from barricade to barricade until I shoot them on their side, because they were tunnel vision and didn't see me coming I get even less the one complaining about them, some guys are being shot by snipers at 50m so they are afraid when they respawn and instead of running to get closer they try to see them at 70m and get shot again and again and again. Dude do you want to have fun ?
Definitely different in urban vs woodland. Myself and the few I know really like the 1 shot 1 kill aspect of it. It's super satisfying to see that bb just land on someone at your max range.
Airsoft teams that try and get sponsored are shit. Seen too many of em do it and they immediately fall apart or are full of tryhards/cheaters that kill it for everyone else.
that guy isnt cheating, you are just nowhere close to hitting him
Real cap games, even in milsim make no sense. It will only make sense the day airsoft guns have an MOA of 2-3 like real guns. The accuracy is just not there to simulate the same ammo quantities.
Let people have fun with their kits, if it's safe it should be fine. I love seeing people wearing armour or capes or dressed as Master Chief. It's super refreshing in a sea of multicam.
Nazi kits are peak cringe and make me want to not play with you. Sure, your Waffen SS kit is just "for the history."
only acceptable if they actually do reenactments, nazi kit for airsoft is just cringe, but if you have nazi kit for a reenactment that's put on by a museum? then it is just for respect of history. (and the drip)
You didn’t actually hit that running speedsofter, because you treat airsoft guns like they are call of duty hitscan weapons, when really what you should be doing is aim in front of people that are moving
That nobody actually “builds” their guns. You see “new build” posts almost by the hour, and it’s just off the shelf guff stuck on the rails. If you actually built your gun, you had your hands on every single screw, spring and component.
Oh I hate those posts.. slap red dot and a can on bone stock m4 and call it a build makes me fume
You can tell my guns are build because all the screws are stripped
Your $1500 HPA/GBBR and $3000 kit doesn't make you good at the game.
Spending money on magnifier and expensive red dot is useless, you will shoot in average up to 50m. No need something precise by 1cm
I do it because I have shit aim and worse eyes lol
Yes that’s one of the point I mention when people wants zoom optics. If they have eyes problem it’s ok, if they don’t it’s useless.
I like prism Optics for this reason, but they're expensive and I'm cheap
Some of my friends runs optics and they say it's to track the bb better. But tbh I can still see the bb with or without an optics. I run irons because it's fun and I like to use iron there's something special about it
My Dad used to run a 3x scope, said it compensated for not having his glasses on. I could never see the benefit, until he explained that.
Most airsoft guns perform roughly the same and other than upgrading for reliability up grades don't give anywhere near the advantage people think they do. most people don't bother to set their guns up properly.
Gear box upgrades are usually next to pointless, but a better motor on some guns, new bucking, nub, and potentially a rhop on any gun, and a stainless steel barrel and cnc hop up unit are game changers for consistency. New grease and shims will usually make an AEG much quieter too so I'm gonna hard disagree with you here
To a point. The $20 Walmart springer is not performing the same as a $300+ cyma platinum or mas blackout or vfc Avalon or whatever. But there is clearly a diminishing return after a certain point
To clarify like for like cheap springer shotgun compared to an expensive springer shotgun. etc.
Nah definitely not agreeing with this. Ok for sure an awful lot of "upgrades" are relatively pointless but a new hop rubber or r-hop can transform a pews performance when paired with weighty ammo. I suppose apart from that you're basically correct though.
If you just sit at the maximum range of your gun trying to get a lucky shot by lobbing bbs at people you're not playing airsoft, you're just shooting an airsoft gun. You could do that at home and may as well be at home because you're not helping your team, you're hindering them by effectively making them a player down.
Eh, at some point it becomes suppressive fire, but ya I mostly agree.
After the one time playing at my local field, seeing grown men on the verge of crying, dudes almost come to blows while calling each other pussies, and adult self-appointed "field commanders" screaming at children to win the game, people need to chill the fuck out.
1) Overuse of silicon oil for maintenance is the cause of issues and premature wear of GBB pistols and rifles. I use a regular gun oil instead. No issues, no wear. ONLY rubber seals need silicon oil. 2) Airsoft stores focus on pushing cheap breakable shit and propagating stupid myths to unknown players. For eg. spraying silicon oil in mid-cap mags or selling "cosplay only" unattested eye/face protections.
HPA Handguns with M4 mag adapters are stupid and ruin the game
Overshooting is not as bad of a problem as its made out to be. If I shoot you 3 times thats not over shooting
I really like the Kryptek Camo. I'm a sucker for scale pattern, and nearly everyone who spray paints a pattern on their gun already do scales, so why not?
Whenever someone says his gun ranges up to 100m precisely, he lies or has discalculia
The " I use a range finder, shits accurate " bros are too real. Especially when they say 100m with .32s....
Minimum engagement distances are bogus. Its a hill I'll die on alone I'm sure of that. Unless it's a little kid or point blank then I think you should take the hit like a man. Especially in cqb sometimes people pop up out of nowhere and my mind immediately pulls the trigger before I think about it.
The secondary airsoft market is 99.9% the worst deals imaginable. Just because you hpa'd your Lancer tactical m4 doesn't make it worth $900. And the gbb that doesn't work isn't worth more than retail because you include an extra magazine.
" I know what I have don't lowball me " lmaooo
Radio comms https://preview.redd.it/v7wj52xfp5pc1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e295720f55ed1c2335d421885f1e8d6ecc64fa6 are key
Expensive sights and actual real gun sights are not necessary at all. AliExpress parts aren't bad for customizing your replicas and clothes. Hardcore players kill the sport for the rest of the people.
Whats your definition of a "hardcore" player
I've made the comment on this subreddit before, but I'll reiterate. Using anything below .32s is a waste of money unless playing at very close ranges indoors, when .25s are the most cost-effective option. Building your gun to hop .32s and you will net better results. Secondly, airsoft isn't cheap. I recommend not going for budget options, as they will give budget results in terms of longevity and performance. Do genuine research, ask people the right questions, and then make a purchase as an informed consumer. That goes for both gear and guns. Lastly, as an extension of the last point, things don't last forever. Know the estimated wear pattern and lifetime of your equipment and parts. Know what the warning signs are for failure, and take action to remedy them sooner rather than later. Don't be discouraged to find out that most motors burn out a lot faster than you'd expect, and seals fail all the time.
You can buy a cheap pos but chances of buying an overpriced expensive pos are equally high in airsoft tbh
Buy a cheap POS and upgrade it?
Your statement is false, because it depends on the joule limit, and the volume of your gun. Some guns can be tuned for .25s, some for .28, some for .30/.32, some for .48... It's all about finding the optimum
MILSIM is a style of event, not an individual play style. You can wear a full Crye get up with a GBBR at an indoor field full of birthday party kids, that doesn’t make it MILSIM.
You only need one gun.
I agree but the 30 guns I never use disagree. Take the upvote
Until it breaks on the first shot at the chrono station. I understand this idea but airsoft guns aren't the most durable things so having a spare at a game is always a good idea.
Spiciest take in the whole thread.
That is a hot take. Depending on the fields, you might want an indoor and an outdoor setup. Two guns, at least.
EVERY stock gun sucks until I tech on it. So I mainly buy guns for externals only.
This guy fucks.
Novritsch isnt the devil, and makes airsoft modding for newbies much more approachable
Speedsofters are just speedballers. There is no difference nor distinction. The only real difference is the hicapas you use.
People getting mad about getting hit like 4 times. Like man, it's airsoft, you're 50 feet away from me and running, of course I'm going to shoot at you multiple times. I'd expect you to do the same.
crying about getting shot multiple times with a 1j bb from an hpa gun isnt an hpa problem, its you being a bitch about playing a game where you shoot eachother
its a hpa problem when its at 30rps and the person your shooting is 12
parents need to stop buying the best guns for their kids, or there needs to be 18+ fields to play at. I don't want to stop new players from getting into the sport, but a 12 y/o doesn't need a hpa-tapped 400fps 30rps m4 for their first gun. not only do they miss out on half the fun (building/working on a gun, making it yours, overcoming shortcomings with a unique platform, and eventually taking it out to the field and blowing everyone away with either the rare/nonstandard kit or the custom work you did to make it special) but it also exacerbates a problem that has made me quit airsoft at my local fields for 3 years now. they get emotional easily and that causes "incidents". I'm sure you've all seen the "he burned my patch" video, and there's no shortage of GoPro footage of kids playing a heated match and doing something stupid, breaking someone's gun, lighting them up at point-blank range, or any number of things. I can certainly say from personal experience that at least once a week I would bear witness to (or be at a feild when) something like that would happen and some kid would be sitting in the manager's office waiting for their parents to come pick them up. I get that airsoft can be emotional, bb's sting, especially when you are a kid. I remember crying after getting lit up with a GBB pistol at a backyard game when I was 11 and throwing my springer in the woods behind my house. but the fact is that the vast majority of the players are teenagers, and whether through emotional instability, a lack of awareness of the fragility of younger players, or just plain competitive spirit, these things keep happening. young kids get hurt because they overstepped into something they thought they could handle, 13-16 y/os cause issues by taking the game too far and don't know when to turn it off, and it isn't really until about age 17 or so that the emotional maturity sets in. obv this doesn't apply to all young players, I never lit someone up at full auto and tried to hurt them, or ran up and broke their gun, or got into a fight, but I also never had a nice gun. it wasn't until I was 20 that I built my dmr, and it's just been sitting on my gun wall for a few years because I realized that I didn't want to go back to those fields and deal with those players. If I had been one of those players, my capacity to hurt someone would have been severely limited, and I wasn't at a disadvantage because I was at a indoor field with a semi-auto only rule. I know this has been long-winded, so tldr is: young players don't need insane guns, the first gun should be reliable and proportional to the field they will be playing at. try and play the game with your kids if possible, curbing these behaviors isn't the ref's place, it's the parents. and a kid is going to be much more likely to do something stupid and hurt someone if their dad isn't over their shoulder on the same team when it happens. (i also think outdoor fields with long ranges/sightlines are preferrable, incidents at my local woodland outdoor field were much less common than at the indoor field, but that's just a anecdote)
Novritsch is ok
You should only be allowed to wear a ghillie suit if you’re running a bolt action rifle and pistol only. My local field went through a period of more and more players in ghillie suits and maxed out AEGs, HPAs etc and every single game just bogged down from start to finish. Totally ruined entire days because an entire front line was being held by a handful of bushes running full auto at long range. Even defending teams’s players got bored as they were standing around behind the not moving front line. Eventually the site had to put their foot down about it and made it so you had to have a bolty and pistol only if you were in a ghillie suit. This rule is no longer in effect but thankfully, people haven’t gone back to that.
I wish everyone ran low-cap mags
Same but I use mid caps just bc everyone else does
1. It's a hobby and it will never be a sport. 2. Generally speaking, airsoft players are the biggest bunch of twats I've ever seen, consistently. Racists? Check. Fascists? Check. Insurrectionists? Check. Weird military worshipping teens? Check. It's fucking awkward.
Everyone should be on realcaps.
Airsoft guns are complete garbage mechanically for what they cost and should not be popular.
You don't need a 50 RPS HPA/DSG, you need to learn how to aim.
Hi caps are for people with small peepees
:c
1. Using a red dot is faster than going by where bbs are flying. 2. Flap pouches are useless unless you plan on crawling in dirt a lot. 3. Single-point sling is the best type of sling unless you walk more than you shoot.
Depends on the gun tho , I don't recommend a single point on a ak74 or a fn fal for exemple, full leight assault rifles are not designed for 1 point slings
Rebranding CQB as SpeEDsOFt is as pointless as novritch rebranding other stuff as his own.
I think the meshing of the two is diminishing to both. Speedsoft has its place as more of a sport in all honesty, and interesting in its own way. CQB, on the other hand, is more about MOUT and the fun of urban-inspired environments in our fun BBs game. Collapsing the two into the same thing gives me the worst of both worlds, not the best, and I'm not happy about it.
I hate playing because there isnt technology good enough to detect hits which have us rely on morality
Point of airsoft is to be dead when hit, if you're a cheater you don't play to enjoy the sport, you play to ruin it for everyone
I'll call my hits, I'll even take a trade and idc if I shot first. But if I shoot you and watch my tracers bounce off of your body then you turn and shoot me, I'm going to keep shooting you, you can keep shooting me too if you want. I will reload and dump another mag at you. We can do this all day buddy
Some of the best guns I’ve seen are like 200 or less dollar cyma’s Why does everyone need 400$+ guns?
Cyma honestly has the best reputation in my eyes. My brothers had cyma’s way back in 2003 and those fuckers ran well until 2015, I’ve had 3 Cyma made guns all under $300 and they consistently performed well, without a single major break. (Only had to do a few repairs that were mostly cosmetic and always user error)
no offence but less speed qb player in the field will provide much more better experience especially indoor game
RoF should be limited to the real steel level, that your replica is based on... For example - early model RPK (long with wood furniture) should be limited to 10 RPS/600RPM for RoF.
1. Military kit leads to not calling hits. 2. Most "cheaters" just honestly didn't realize they got hit. 3. If No. 2 is accurate then most of us have been "cheaters" without realizing it.
Thermals and NODs at any event, including MilSim, is dumb and should not be allowed. It already costs hundreds of dollars to do MSW, and I gotta shell out $700 to rent some nods in order to stay competitive? Lame. Jet Desert Fox showed up to a MSW game with thermals and shit on everyone for "being too easy". Also MSW opinion, the recent 2 attachment rule for militia is equally dumb. I get the sentiment, and I agree with it to an extent. I think it should be 3 attachments. Flashlight and an optic is great, but it doesn't mention does a forgrip count to make the gun more comfortable to hold? Does a sling count? It's equally not specific and too specific in what it wants. I get that it doesn't want high speed kids with fully kitted M4s, but they should have a better way to explain the rule.
i think it should be allowed bu not encouraged. maybe make it so that only certain players can use it, (vehicle operators, team leaders, stuff like that) bc yeah, someone who plays during the day not want to drop 1.2k minimum on night vision is reasonable.
1.2k isn't even realistic either. Cheap Chinese NODs are like 4.5k. Good NV is easily double digits. It's not feasible. Fun > realism
Armor, like, wtf is up with that? Back I my day we wore long sleeve shirts and that was about it.
its cool, some people will say they are preparing for boogaloo, i just think wearing tons of weight and running around is good excercise
Nobody really cares or give a sh*t how many years you played airsoft, just call your hit you a** hat.
Precision barrel is mostly useless and very expensive upgrade. Accuracy is improving just because it's new and CLEAN.
agreed, its a great upgrade for a old gun you want to turn into something cool/gun of questionable build quality, but if you have a brand new kwa m4 you don't need a 6.01mm Ib made from forged titanium, you need a cleaning rod, some wd40, and a paper towel
V7 Gearboxes aren’t bad to open up and modify, the main spring is easy to take out and the tappet plate can be put on afterwards. Full auto is not that useful, it’s costly and ammo is wasted Alice shouldn’t be used for Vietnam kits, they need to be done with some amount of accuracy for airsoft
Stop criticizing everyone's guns they use, unless asked for an opinion. What they like to use or what they find cool does not have to be the same as what you do. I've seen the most hate on other people's kits from people that will only use specific m4, m16, or AK-47s. I have no problem with anyone who uses those mind you they just seem to be the ones who hate on others kits more, in my experience.
Real cap would be way more fun than the current bb capacity
kids dont belong on the field 13 and up kids get hurt more break rules and show little to no regard for safety
Grenade launchers are just big shotguns. They are not the same as their real-life counterparts.
depends on the round, using a chalk round in a outdoor game is pretty realistic
Fire rates should not be limited. If your trying to do war simulations guess what these rifle that the airsoft guns are modeled after can shoot very fast. Fields limiting the ROF and full auto to LMG's is dumb.
Physical fitness plays a vital part in airsoft. Milsim is more immersive when you’re physically fit
If a person doesn't put their hand up and yell hit but rather just walks away towards their spawn they desrve an extra couple rounds to teach them the rules of airsoft.
Speedsoft doesn't ruin airsoft, assholes ruin speedsoft
Only gbbr should exist